'Selling' definitions:
Definition of 'selling'
From: WordNet
noun
The exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money [syn: selling, merchandising, marketing]
Definition of 'Selling'
From: GCIDE
- Sell \Sell\ (s[e^]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sold (s[=o]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Selling.] [OE. sellen, sillen, AS. sellan, syllan, to give, to deliver; akin to OS. sellian, OFries. sella, OHG. sellen, Icel. selja to hand over, to sell, Sw. s[aum]lja to sell, Dan. s[ae]lge, Goth. saljan to offer a sacrifice; all from a noun akin to E. sale. Cf. Sale.]
- 1. To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money. It is the correlative of buy. [1913 Webster]
- If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor. --Matt. xix. 21. [1913 Webster]
- I am changed; I'll go sell all my land. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Sell is corellative to buy, as one party buys what the other sells. It is distinguished usually from exchange or barter, in which one commodity is given for another; whereas in selling the consideration is usually money, or its representative in current notes. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray. [1913 Webster]
- You would have sold your king to slaughter. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat. [Slang] --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
- To sell one's life dearly, to cause much loss to those who take one's life, as by killing a number of one's assailants.
- To sell (anything) out, to dispose of it wholly or entirely; as, he had sold out his corn, or his interest in a business. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'selling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accouterment,
- allurement,
- armament,
- blandishment,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- catering,
- chandlery,
- coaxing,
- conning,
- consumer preference study,
- consumer research,
- consumer survey,
- direct-mail selling,
- endowment,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- equipment,
- exhortation,
- finding,
- fitting out,
- furnishing,
- furnishment,
- hard sell,
- hawking,
- high-pressure salesmanship,
- hortation,
- huckstering,
- inducement,
- investment,
- jawboning,
- jobbing,
- lobbying,
- logistics,
- low-pressure salesmanship,
- mail-order selling,
- market,
- market research,
- marketing,
- marketing research,
- merchandising,
- outfitting,
- peddling,
- persuasion,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- preparation,
- procurement,
- promotion,
- providing,
- provision,
- provisioning,
- purveyance,
- reinforcement,
- replenishment,
- resupply,
- retail,
- retailing,
- sales,
- sales campaign,
- sales promotion,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- sellout,
- snow job,
- soft sell,
- soft soap,
- solicitation,
- suasion,
- subsidization,
- subsidy,
- subvention,
- supply,
- supplying,
- sweet talk,
- victualing,
- wheedling,
- wholesale,
- wholesaling,
- working on